feat: disable CPE-based matching by default for javascript #1180
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Signed-off-by: Weston Steimel <weston.steimel@anchore.com>
Signed-off-by: Weston Steimel <weston.steimel@anchore.com>
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CPE-based matching leads to a large amount of false positives, and disabling it by default for the javascript matcher seems like a reasonable first step since GitHub owns NPM and already has coverage of NPM-related security advisories in the Github Security Advisory dataset